Re: initdb: failed

I'm now going by this:
http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/postgresql/postgresql-7.4.README

I am trying the first simple way to get the program started and if I
can get that, figure I try the NT service route.

When I try to initialize the database, I get:

creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in /var/postgresql/data/base/1... Signal 12

initdb: failed
initdb: removing data directory "/var/postgresql/data"

I installed the cygwin files, restarted the computer to make sure
nothing was running and then went through the steps and I still get
this. I am really lost, especially since no log files are generating.

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:41:08 -0400, Adam Lang <raider(dot)adam(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Ok, so what documentation should I be looking at for the current
> installation instructions?
>
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 03:30:26 +1000, Daniel Secomb <dan(at)ds-d(dot)com> wrote:
> > You are using old commands. Cygwin no longer uses "ipc-daemon". Replace
> > ipc-daemon with "cygserver".
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > $ export CYGWIN=server
> > $ /usr/sbin/cygserver &
> >
> > See how you go.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Adam Lang
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:49 AM
> > To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: [CYGWIN] initdb: failed
> >
> > I have spent several days trying tofind the cause of this on google,
> > but I am stumped.
> >
> > Thsi is the article I was using as a guideline:
> > http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1233
> >
> > I am running on Windows 2000 professional. ipc-daemon2 seems to start
> > fien in the service window.
> >
> > The problem is when I log into windows as postgres. I rin the initdb
> > -D command, it runs through its checks and then says initdb fails
> > saying there is a lock file on the existing PID. There is no
> > postmaster process runnign. I delete out the data directory to make
> > sure there is no pid file, rerun initdb -D again and same thing.
> >
> > The versions of the software are the latest. I just downloaded them a
> > coupel days ago.
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Let us not then pursue
By force impossible, by leave obtained
Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state
Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek
Our own good from ourselves, and from our own
Live to ourselves, though in this vast recess,
Free, and to none accountable, preferring
Hard liberty before the easy yoke
Of servile pomp.
- Mammon, Paradise Lost